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Decomposition of subsets in finite fields

Number Theory 2018-03-30 v1

Abstract

We extend a bound of Roche-Newton, Shparlinski and Winterhof which says any subset of a finite field can be decomposed into two disjoint subset \cU\cU and \cV\cV of which the additive energy of \cU\cU and f(\cV)f(\cV) are small, for suitably chosen rational functions ff. We extend the result by proving equivalent results over multiplicative energy and the additive and multiplicative energy hybrids.

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@article{arxiv.1803.10935,
  title  = {Decomposition of subsets in finite fields},
  author = {Simon Macourt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.10935},
  year   = {2018}
}

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11 pages

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